Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.